subservient chicken
tell the chicken what you want it to do (like “sit on the sofa”, “turn around”, “play some music”) and the subservient chicken does what you want. i haven’t yet decided if this is a late april’s fool joke or a brilliant marketing campaign, either way it’s hilarious! oh, and if you feel the urge to act like a subservient chicken or if your missus likes these sort of things, there’s even a chicken mask for you to wear :-)
picture of the week
the picture below was taken in the american bar in vienna, where it’s actually prohibited to take pictures, so i had to take one without using the flash. the tables in the american bar are lit from within, leading to this amazing glowing bottles.
new filewile-track
coming home. checking mail. getting 29 spam emails while being offline for only 4 days. sifting through the relevant email. seeing the one from dustbowl. going to filewile.com and downloading their new track emitow (which is gonna be on the ccc-compilation). listening to it and enjoying it. this day is gonna be good.
happy easter
oh, and by the way, i wish you all a happy easter, i’ll be away skiing until monday or tuesday. i’m visiting a friend (scroll down to see mara bucko) of mine in austria. i hope to rent one or two good skis, and maybe return with a new snow-weapon.
big fish
yesterday evening i went to see tim burtons latest movie: big fish. if you haven’t seen it, go and see it instantly, it’s such a heartwarming and poetic movie. i hardly couldn’t help crying out loud in the cinema, because the end is so sad and so happy in the same time. one of the best movies i’ve seen in a long time!
new software
those of you of which english is not your maternal language have probably used a bunch of translation services on the net or use a dictionary from time to time to look up unknown words. my preferred way of looking up a translation of an english word was to use the excellent dict.leo.org. ages ago i fired up my browser, typed the address in, waited, put the word to be translated in the box, clicked enter and then got the translation. soon i made myself a little bookmarklet in safari (adapted from a hint on osxhints.com) and didn’t need to put in the address myself:
update: bike ride to chernobyl
as diggory says, the photo diary of a motorcycle tour is one of the most frightening and depressing things i’ve seen in a long while! [via monkeyfood] update: boingboing notes that this story probably is some kind of hoax. nonetheless the whole story behind the story is unbelievably sad and should never ever happen again. nowhere!
guitar god
did you ever play too much video games, so that you had nightmares? i remember once trying to finish tetris on the hardest possible setting on the gameboy and managing to finish it (so that the space-shuttle bonus screen came up) and having the most terrible night-mares afterwards. i had to dodge out those falling blocks in my dreams, and every-time i couldn’t manage it getting squished to death… i bet KeiicHi must have had nightmares, too (3.7 mb .wmv movie). he manages to play the soundtrack of super mario land on his guitar, complete with the power-up and coin-grab sound effects! marvelous!
picture of the week
this friday i was at the aquaparc with mike. the whole afternoon made us quite hungry, so we wanted to eat something on the journey back home and made a stop in lausanne. the picture below is the amazing chandelier hanging in the concourse of the railway-station in lausanne.
ten worst album covers EVER!
if you dare to look at the ten worst album covers ever, then you have to check out this page. [via pieceoblog]